Three Rings - The dirt racetracks of northern Michigan
In the last decade, the town of Rothbury has become famous for the Electric Forest music festival, However, during the other 51 weeks of the year, motorsports reign supreme in this small Norther Michigan town. Every weekend, working class people flock to arenas like The Winston Speedway, Thunderbird Raceway, and Silverback Offroad Speedway, to witness the raw power of the vehicles, and the skill of the drivers who race them. Many of the people who drive are the sons, daughters, friends, and spouses of the spectators who watch and cheer from the stands.

To visually represent this unique culture, I use an unfiltered 640-watt flash. This flash, much like the roaring engines on the track, is difficult to control. It's intensity, often evocative of the flash pans used in early photography, harkens back to a time when gunpowder ignited to create light for the first photographic exposures. The result is a visual style that is energetic, unruly, and imperfect, much like the culture of the dirt tracks themselves.